1921.] Gupta Empire in Sixth and Seventh Cents. A.D. 315 
Ayodhya, father of Baladitya, who was a patron of Buddhis 
through the influence of Vasubandhu.! The importance of 
this identification lies in the fact that it proves that the suc- 
cessors of Skanda Gupta ruled at Ayodhya probably till the 
ise of the Maukharis 
Pura Gupta was ‘succeeded by his son, Narasimha Gupta 
Baladitya. This king has been identified with king Baladitya 
who is represented by oe Tsang as having overthrown the 
tyrant Mihirakula. has been overlooked that Hiuen 
Tsang’s Baladitya was ae immediate successor of Tathagata 
Gupta who was himself the immediate successor of Budha 
Gupta,’ whereas Narasimha Gupta Baladitya was the son and 
successor of Pura Gupta who in his turn was the son of Kumara 
—- T and the successor of eae Gupta. The son and suc- 
Pura Gupta but an altogether different individual. The 
existence of at least two kings of the Madhyadésa having 
the biruda Baladitya is proved by the Sarnath inscription of 
Prakataditya.° 
Narasimha Gupta must have died in or about the year 472. 
He was succeeded by his son Kumara Gupta II, Kramaditya 
by queen Mahalakshmi Devi. 
Kumara Gupta JI has been identified with the king of 
that name mentioned in the Sarnath Buddhist Image Inscrip- 
tion of the year 154 G.E. (A.D. 473-74). His reign must have 
terminated in or about the year 157 (A. D. 476-77 ), the first 
477). This is by no means a unique case. Jn Vengi three East- 
ern Chalukya Monarchs, viz. Vijayaditya IV, his son Ammaraja 
I, and Ammara ja’s son, at gi cc 1 ae ruled only for 
seven ao and six and a half m 
udha Gupta, the os Kumara Gupta IJ, 
Pes ing we have a number of dated inscriptions and coins 
1 Op. cit., pp Li. eas 
Fi Smith, E.H.I., pp: 3 
3 Fo-to-kio-to. Beal pe II, p Shek Fleet (C.I.1. Introduction, 
46n ) and Watters (On Yuan Chwang’s 3 Tr avels in India, II, p. at bi render 
the term by ‘‘ Buddha Gupta”? a name unknown to Indian Epigraphy 
i Baladitya with Mibirakula (Beal _ Lite 
,” p. 111; Si-yu-ki, I, p. 168) proves that ‘‘ Budha 
4 ” is meant. 
atters, Yuan tee p. 165. 
Fleet, C.LI., p. 2 
- § Maj umdar ihe Revised Chronology of the Last Gupta Emperors, Ind. 
Ant., 1918, p- 161 et ie 2 
i Hultzsch, South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, p. 46. 
